Vitruvius – an investigation

Elective, Fall 2024
Victor Plahte Tschudi

Vitruvius – an investigation reaches back to the foundational text in architecture, Vitruvius´ De architectura (On Architecture) written ca. 20 BCE. It aims to re-evaluate the text and unravel hidden, overlooked, and misunderstood levels in the text and reign in the renewed message Vitruvius carries today, concretized in three specific areas of investigation. The first […]

Moving Monuments: Rome

Studio, Fall 2024
Victor Plahte Tschudi (course responsible), Tim Anstey, Mari Hvattum, Mari Lending and Even Smith Wergeland

The OCCAS studio course Moving Monuments: Rome, in its 10th edition, continues to uproot the monuments of Rome. Tracing a collection of Rome´s monuments through history, or rather history through its many mediations, “moving” refers to the circulation and recreation of buildings in various media and materials, from print to plaster, across the ages. Through […]

Fashion, Forensics, Ecologies

Elective, Fall 2024
Tim Anstey

Part of the OCCAS series Exhibiting Architecture, this seminar contributes to the exhibition Lady Anne Clifford: Building Attributes, which will open at Abbott Hall Museum, Cumbria, UK, in April 2025. Anne Clifford moved in life from being a wronged 17th century heiress to a powerful political actor, and used representation, archival research, building and physical […]